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    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

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    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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New Philosophy Fellows of American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announced

The AAAS press release and complete listing is here.  The new Fellows are Geoffrey P. Hellman (Minnesota), Terence Parsons (UCLA), Robert Pippin (Chicago), Stephen Schiffer (NYU), Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie-Mellon), Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins), and Mark Wilson (Pittsburgh).  Three Foreign Honorary Members in Philosophy were also elected:  Jacques Brunschwig (Paris 1 [Sorbonne]), Ernst Tugendhat (Tubingen), and Timothy Williamson (Oxford).

This is a curious list because no one in religious studies was elected in this category this year (the category is officially "Philosophy and Religious Studies"):  I can’t recall a year in which ten philosophers were elected in a single year!

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